About 15,000 Chase credit card holders in Pennsylvania no longer will be hounded by debt collectors after the bank settled a nationwide probe that challenged its collections efforts.

The investigation by attorneys general in 47 states, including Pennsylvania, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged Chase filed lawsuits and obtained judgments against consumers using deceptive affidavits or other documents that were prepared without following required procedures. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency had a similar investigation.

Chase allegedly sold to debt buyers accounts that were inaccurate, settled, discharged in bankruptcy, not owed by the consumer or otherwise uncollectable, according to a statement Wednesday from PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane.

Chase will pay more than $166 million in penalties to state and federal officials and $50 million in refunds to account holders. Pennsylvania authorities will receive $4.4 million.

Chase has agreed to cease all collection efforts on more than 528,000 consumers, including an estimated 15,405 in Pennsylvania.

Chase sued those customers for credit card debts and obtained judgments between Jan. 1, 2009 and June 30, 2014. Chase will notify affected borrowers of the change and will request all three major credit reporting agencies to not report the judgments.

In a statement, Chase said the settlement related to "practices stopped years ago for its sworn document, collections litigation and certain debt sales practices on defaulted credit card debt."

More information is available in the attorney general's statement here and in a statement from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau here. You can read the statement from Chase here.